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FRANCIS A. HOFFMANN OF ILLINOIS
and HANS BUSCHBAUER OF WISCONSIN^
J. H. A. Lacher
ON entering Union Cemetery at Jefferson, Wisconsin, the visitor is confronted by a granite monument bear¬ ing the name HOFFMANN. It is a respectable memorial, but nothing unusual. The markers beside it are, however, out of the ordinary, for they bear these curious inscriptions:
VATER
Franz Arnold MOTHER
Hans Buschbauer Cynthia Gilbert
5 Juni 1822 Grete Buschbauer
23 Jan. 1903 18 Mai 1825
Hier ruht ein 11 Juni 1908 Deutscher Mann
To the passing stranger these inscriptions are enigmatic, but old residents may explain them and tell something about the interesting story of the persons commemorated in this curious manner. However, since the old residents will them¬ selves pass away, the story of this remarkable couple is likely to be forgotten, for it is not recorded in the histories of our state. True, old files of the Jefferson Banner contain in-
^ In preparing the above article the autho

Francis A. Hoffman of Illinois and Hans Buschbauer of Wisconsin: These names referred to the same person (1822-1903), who was born Hoffman but achieved fame writing under the pen name Buschbauer. After fleeing the Prussian draft in 1840, Hoffman settled in Illinois where he became a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago where he gave up the pulpit to become an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor's absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press. These went to hundreds of thousands of readers all over the nation and established his literary fame under the name Hans Buschbauer. (18 pages)

FRANCIS A. HOFFMANN OF ILLINOIS
and HANS BUSCHBAUER OF WISCONSIN^
J. H. A. Lacher
ON entering Union Cemetery at Jefferson, Wisconsin, the visitor is confronted by a granite monument bear¬ ing the name HOFFMANN. It is a respectable memorial, but nothing unusual. The markers beside it are, however, out of the ordinary, for they bear these curious inscriptions:
VATER
Franz Arnold MOTHER
Hans Buschbauer Cynthia Gilbert
5 Juni 1822 Grete Buschbauer
23 Jan. 1903 18 Mai 1825
Hier ruht ein 11 Juni 1908 Deutscher Mann
To the passing stranger these inscriptions are enigmatic, but old residents may explain them and tell something about the interesting story of the persons commemorated in this curious manner. However, since the old residents will them¬ selves pass away, the story of this remarkable couple is likely to be forgotten, for it is not recorded in the histories of our state. True, old files of the Jefferson Banner contain in-
^ In preparing the above article the autho